ס – Samech – Biblical Hebrew Study Dictionary

Word entries are of the format:

Hebrew Word – English Transliteration – Meanings – Word Construction – Notes

 

[Color Code, Transliteration Chart, and Chart of Letter Meanings are at the bottom of this page.]

 

 

ס


סבב    SBB     surround

‘divisions… tent… tent’

– perhaps reflects what separates tents from tents.


סגד    SGD     worship          (*Aramaic)


סגן     SGN     ruler / prefect                       

ס = divisions + מגן = shield

or:  ‘pieces… gather… ahead’

– meaning: to unify.


סגר    SGR     close / shut

‘divisions… remove… body’

– to remove a divide in something is to shut it.

מסגרת  MSGRTh    border


סוג     SWG     turn back                                              

‘pieces… add to… gather’

– the action needed to add pieces to what has been gathered.             


סוך    SWK     anoint                       

‘divisions (portions)… add to… vessel’

– describes the action of ‘pouring out’.


סוס    SWS     horse      

‘divisions… add to… pieces’

– refers to trampling.


סוף    SWPh     reeds / red                                            

‘pieces… add to… wind’

– reeds are tall broad-leafed grass.


סופה    SWPhH     whirlwind / hurricane         

‘pieces (or divisions)… add to… turn… be’

or:  ‘pieces (or divisions)… add to… wind… be’


סור     SWR     turn aside / remove

‘divisions… add to… body’

– ‘divisions’ refer to what is divided from something else.


סות    SWTh     incite / mislead                                     

‘divisions… add to… united’

– to divide unity.


סחר   SChR     to trade                                       

‘pieces… separate… man’


סיני   SYNY     Sinai (mountain)

‘thorn (or divisions)… make… emerging… bring forth’

– may refer to a place resin was harvested.


סיר    SYR     pot / cauldron / remove

forpot / cauldron’:

‘pieces… bring… body’

 

forremove’:

‘divisions… make… body’

 


סכך    SKK     cover                                             

‘divisions… vessel… carry’

– perhaps what divides what a vessel carries from what is doesn’t carry.

מסך  MSK    screen          

סכה  SKH    booth


סכן    SKN     endangered / be useful                           

‘divisions… vessel… ahead’


סכר    SKR       stop up

‘divisions…  vessel… body’


סל      SL     basket                                    

‘divisions (portions)… extending’

– the result of divisions are portions.  ‘Extending’ could refer to a heaping basket filled past its top or to its function to carry its contents over some distance.  The word first occurs in Genesis 40:16.


סלה     SLH     extended pause / interlude / selah

‘divisions… extending… shall be’


סלח     SLCh     forgive                              

‘divisions… extending… separate’

– here ‘divisions’ refers to ‘damage’ and in the context of this word such ‘damage’ is made separate from, and doesn’t determine, what will be.


סלל    SLL     build up                               

‘pieces… extending… far reaching’

Many pieces that extend a considerable distance (far reaching), both up and out, is a ‘build up’ (of the pieces).

מסלה  MSLH    highway            

סללה  SLLH    mound


סלע     SLO     rock

‘pieces… extending… seen’


סלף     SLPh     choice flour

‘pieces… extending… turn (change)’

or:  סלע = rock + ף = turn (change)


סם     SM     spice                                      

‘divisions… physical’

– perhaps referring to spices being ground up or portioned.


סמך     SMK     support / lean                   

‘pieces… physical… carry’


סנה    SNH     thorn bush

‘thorn… emerging… be’


סעד    SOD     support / sustain                              

 ס = pieces + עד = up to


סערה     SORH     whirlwind / hurricane / storm   

‘pieces… seen… body… be’

or:  ‘divisions… seen… body… be’

– may refer to the destruction such storms bring.


סף      SPh     threshold                                       

‘divisions… wind’

or:  ‘divisions… turn (change)’


ספד     SPhD     lament                    

‘divisions… turn (change)… path through’

– perhaps refers to what has been lost, or divided from where it was.


ספה     SPhH     sweep away                     

‘divisions… wind… be’


ספיר    SPhYR    sapphire           

‘pieces… turn (change)… bring forth… body’


ספר     SPhR     book / write / count / relate

‘pieces… breath… man’


סקל     SQL     to stone                               

‘pieces… enduring… far reaching’


סריס    SRYS     eunuch / official      

‘divisions… body… bring forth… pieces’


סרן    SRN    lord                                      

‘divisions… man… ahead’     

– perhaps who is in charge of a portion.


סרר    SRR     rebellious / stubborn          

‘divisions (divide)… man… man’


סתם   SThM     conceal / close         

‘divisions (divide)… together… physical’


סתר    SThR     hide / conceal / secret

‘divisions (divide)… together… man’


 

 

 

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Purple = Words constructed with root words + letter meanings.

Brown Italics  =  Related words with meanings derived via logic, context or unknown.

Brown Bold = Words derived via grammar rules.

Red = Unknown word construction.

 

 

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